My main research interest has centred around questions that have to do with the nature of explanation. This has led me to work on questions in the history and philosophy science, the philosophy of physics, and in metaphysics. I have worked on the debate over the status of Newton's theory of gravity, problems for causal accounts of explanation, how to allow laws of nature to do explanatory work independently of causal underpinnings, and how to account for our judgements of antisymmetry in specific cases that motivate the introduction of notions such as ontological dependence and ground.

In upcoming work I will address the role of explanation …

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